Industrial Communication Systems

9-6 Industrial Communication Systems

9.3.2 Library Book Tracking

Institutional (academic) libraries and public libraries face growing challenges in managing the assets of

their

collection

and

maintaining

or

improving

service

levels

to

patrons.

Over

the

past

20

years,

librar-

ies

have

grown

their

services

to

their

patrons

from

simply

oering

books

and

periodicals

to

now

add-

ing

multimedia

items

such

as

videos,

CDs,

and

DVDs.

Add

to

this

the

fact

that

many

libraries

provide

patrons

computers

to

access

the

Internet

as

another

source

for

information.

roughout

this

growth

in

material

resources

oered

by

libraries,

there

are

also

growing

concerns

on

the

security

of

the

collection

assets

and

maintaining

(or

improving)

service

levels

to

the

patrons ...